A charming funny poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour 102 Boulevard Haussmann an elegant address in Paris's eighth arrondissement Upstairs lives Madame Williams with her second husband & her harp Downstairs lives Marcel Proust trying to write In Search of Lost Time but all too often distracted by the noise from upstairs Written by Proust to Madame Williams between the years 1909 & 1919 this precious discovery of letters reveals the comings & goings of a Paris building as seen through Proust's eyes You'll read of the effort required to live peacefully with annoying neighbours; of the sadness of losing friends in the war; of concerts & music & writing; & above all of a growing touching friendship between two lonely souls Delightful Big news for Proustians' Daily Telegraph If you have suffered from noisy neighbours you will sympathize with Marcel Proust' Times Literary Supplement A haunting portrait of a friendship between two people who lived within earshot of one another separated only by a few inches of plaster & floorboard but who scarcely ever met' New Statesman ...

Juliet Young always writes letters to her mother a world-traveling photojournalist Even after her mother's death she leaves letters at her grave It's the only way Juliet can cope Declan Murphy isn't the sort of guy you want to cross In the midst of his court-ordered community service at the local cemetery he's trying to escape the demons of his past When Declan reads a haunting letter left beside a grave he can't resist writing back Soon he's opening up to a perfect stranger & their connection is immediate But neither Declan nor Juliet knows that they're not actually strangers When life at school interferes with their secret life of letters sparks will fly as Juliet & Declan discover truths that might tear them apart Read along with Zoella! Chosen by Chris Russell as part of the new Zoella Book Club for WHSmith ...

Letters to the Midwife is a wonderful collection of correspondence received by Jennifer Worth offering a fascinating glimpse into a long-lost world Along with readers' responses & personal histories it is filled with all sorts of heart-warming gems There are stories from other midwives lorry drivers even a seamstress all with tales to tell Containing previously unpublished material describing her time spent in Paris & some journal entries this is also a portrait of Jennifer herself complete with a moving introduction by her family about the woman they knew & loved ...

' If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author this appears to me to be the book' William Godwin the author's future husband was not alone in admiring Letters written during a short residence in Sweden Norway & Denmark Wollstonecraft's most popular book during her lifetime Not easy to categorize it is both an arresting travel book & a moving exploration of her personal & political selves Wollstonecraft set out for Scandinavia just two weeks after her first suicide attempt on a mission from the lover whose affections she doubted to recover his silver on a ship that had gone missing With her baby daughter & a nursemaid she travelled across the dramatic landscape & wrote sublime descriptions of the natural world & the events & people she encountered What emerges most vividly is Wollstonecraft's courage & ability to look beyond her own suffering to the turmoil around her in revolutionary Europe & a better future This edition

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Judith Hermann's masterly new stories reveal the inconceivable drama of existence what happens when we meet someone? In the stories of Letti Park strangers wander into ordinary lives & change them in profound yet unknowable ways Like us Judith Hermann's characters have no defence against these intense & unpredictable encounters They occur at random without cause or provocation & unfold beneath the threshold of comprehension In Letti Park Judith Hermann explores this all-important moment our loneliness & rage & longing ...

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